When the appliances discover an old prototype TLW-728 radio named 'Wittgenstein' abandoned, all alone and run-down in the basement when transistors were invented. Meanwhile, Mack, Rob's lab assistant, plots to sell the injured animals Rob had been tending to as part of his courses, to a place in Santa Clarita called 'Tartarus Laboratories', which is the same facility that Sebastian, an old monkey, was sent to when he was just a baby. The appliances along with a rat named Ratso seek to help Rob by finding and reversing the effects of his computer virus, hence recovering the master's thesis. One night, while finishing on a thesis, his computer accidentally crashes due to a terrible computer virus. Rob McGoarty, the owner of the appliances and whom they refer to as 'The Master', is in his last days of college and is working at a veterinary clinic. The film (along with Goes to Mars) is available for purchase and rental on the iTunes Store, but the first film has yet to be released on iTunes.

A production of Hyperion Animation and The Kushner-Locke Company in the United States, it was released in 1997 in the United Kingdom by Walt Disney Home Video and 1999 in the United States. Despite being released after The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, it is actually the second film in chronological order. The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, also known as The Brave Little Toaster Goes to School, is a 1997 American direct-to-video sequel to The Brave Little Toaster. Original Brave Little Toaster characters: Pierre DeCelles (animation director: Morning Sun Animation Group, Inc., uncredited)

Greg Sullivan (overseas animation director)

Brave little toaster to the rescue